{{short description|Task management application}} {{Infobox software | name = Astrid | logo = <!-- optional: insert file name if available --> | screenshot = <!-- optional: insert file name if available --> | caption = | developer = Astrid Inc. | released = 2008 | discontinued = yes | latest release version = <!-- not specified on article --> | operating system = Android, iOS, web | platform = Cross-platform | genre = Task management software | license = Proprietary }}
'''Astrid''' was a multi-platform to-do list and task management application that was created in San Francisco, CA in 2008.<ref>{{cite news|author=Blair, Nancy |date=August 5, 2013|title=Yahoo shutters to-do list app Astrid|work= USA TODAY|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/personal/2013/08/05/yahoo-shutters-astrid/2618141/}}</ref> It was identified by the company's octopus icon. The service reminded users of scheduled tasks and was designed for limited integration with Google Calendar. Yahoo! acquired the company on May 1, 2013 and shuttered the Astrid service on August 5, 2013.<ref name="Tech">{{cite web|title=Yahoo's Recently Acquired Task Tracking Service Astrid Will Go Dark On August 5|url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/06/astrid-goes-dark-august-5-goodnight-sweet-squid/?ncid=tcdaily|work=TechCrunch|publisher=AOL Inc|accessdate=6 July 2013|author=Chris Velazko|date=6 July 2013}}</ref>
==History== In 2008, Tim Su and Jon Paris co-founded Astrid in San Francisco, CA.<ref>{{cite news|author=Blair, Nancy |date=August 5, 2013|title=Yahoo shutters to-do list app Astrid|work= USA TODAY|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/personal/2013/08/05/yahoo-shutters-astrid/2618141/}}</ref>
In 2011, Astrid attend the AngelPad startup accelerator.<ref>[https://allthingsd.com/20110712/googlers-stick-together-google-ventures-invests-in-angelpad-start-ups/ The Google Start-Up Network: Google Ventures Invests in AngelPad Companies]</ref> Later that year, they raised a seed round of venture capital from Google Ventures having had 1.5 million downloads and 250,000 monthly active users.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/idUS171104730520110715 Now backed by Google, Astrid is thinking big]</ref>
In May 2013, Astrid co-founder and CEO Jon Paris announced on the company's blog on May 1 that Yahoo! had acquired Astrid{{Broken anchor|date=2024-07-19|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=List of mergers and acquisitions by Yahoo!#Acquisitions|reason= The anchor (Acquisitions) has been deleted.}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Yahoo acquires Astrid |url=http://blog.astrid.com/blog/2013/05/01/yahoo-acquires-astrid/ |work=Astrid |accessdate=6 July 2013 |author=Jon Paris |date=1 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130811052500/http://blog.astrid.com/blog/2013/05/01/yahoo-acquires-astrid/ |archivedate=August 11, 2013 }}</ref>
In an early July 2013 announcement, the public was made aware of Yahoo's scheduled closure of the task management service Astrid.
Yahoo discontinued the service on August 5, 2013. The team at Astrid supplied its customers with a data export tool and recommended former competitors such as Any.do, Sandglaz, Wrike, and Wunderlist.<ref name="Tech" /><ref>{{cite news|author=Blair, Nancy |date=August 5, 2013|title=Yahoo shutters to-do list app Astrid|work= USA TODAY|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/personal/2013/08/05/yahoo-shutters-astrid/2618141/}}</ref>
In 2014, the source code for the Android app was forked to create Tasks.org, an independent to-do list app for Android.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Welcome {{!}} Tasks.org |url=https://tasks.org/docs/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241124120132/https://tasks.org/docs/ |archive-date=24 November 2024 |access-date=24 November 2024 |website=Tasks.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=tasks/tasks: Bringing Astrid Tasks back from the dead |url=https://github.com/tasks/tasks |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241124120500/https://github.com/tasks/tasks |archive-date=24 November 2024 |access-date=24 November 2024 |website=GitHub}}</ref>
==See also== *Astrid *Astrid (disambiguation) *List of Yahoo-owned sites and services
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Category:Android (operating system) software Category:Discontinued Yahoo! services Category:Time-tracking software
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